Windows update management with Intune

Skills you'll practise

• Explain what update rings, feature update policies, quality update (expedite) policies and driver update policies each control
• Design pilot and broad rings with deferrals, deadlines and grace periods inside the documented ranges
• Use pause, extend and uninstall correctly and predict their effect on devices
• Choose an expedite policy for an urgent security update and explain why deferrals don't block it
• Check prerequisites and reports when a feature update policy isn't applying

Course outline

1. 1.The Windows update policy typesLesson · 16 min
2. 2.Designing and operating ringsLesson · 20 min
3. 3.Urgent fixes, reports and common mistakesLesson · 14 min
4. 4.Windows update management with Intune: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
5. 5.Windows update management with Intune: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
6. 6.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft Learn: Windows update management overview (Intune)
• Microsoft Learn: Manage Windows update ring policies
• Microsoft Learn: Update rings policy settings
• Microsoft Learn: Manage Windows feature updates
• Microsoft Learn: Expedite policies for Windows quality updates
• Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Intune reports